Miss Teen Delaware Resigns After Porno Surfaces

Miss Delaware Teen USA — Melissa King — has officially sent in her letter of resignation after a porn video surfaced Monday allegedly starring the teenage beauty queen, TMZ reports. It looks like she will no longer be representing her state in the Miss Teen USA Pageant.

In the explicit clip, a girl resembling King addresses the camera and says she turned 18 “three months ago … In March” before telling the interviewer that she participates in beauty pageants. After the girl describes her favorite sexual positions, the X-rated material begins. King, who will turn 19 this March, denies being involved in the hardcore footage. “Absolutely not,” she said. “It is not [me].” However, sources have claimed that the teenager in the video looks and sounds exactly like the beauty pageant winner.

Left: King wins the teen pageant. Right: Screen shot from the porn video in question.

Right before the video surfaced, King ironically posted the following status update on her Facebook page:

a year ago almost, I turned 18. I’m about to turn 19 and so much has changed for the better in my life in the past year … Nothing can bring me down:)

Turns out an explicit porn video can bring you down if you are a teen beauty queen.

Melissa King — who had been in foster care from age 12 to 18 — participated earlier this year in the Where New Life Begins Documentary Project, a documentary about teenagers aging out of the Foster Care system in Delaware. She had planned to use her position as Miss Teen Delaware to bring attention and motivate charity efforts toward children in foster care.

Sources confirm that a pageant rep has already reached out to a replacement — the first runner-up, Hailey Lawler.

Although King has not been reached for a statement, the tweet below published on February 23 appropriately foreshadows her current situation.

Once you move on in life people shouldn’t try to use your past against you… Let them be happy

This isn’t the first time Delaware has had problem with its beauty queens. In 2005, Sheena Benton was allowed to keep her title as Miss Delaware USA after the pageant learned she had pleaded guilty for drunk driving in 2004.